The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert L. Heilbroner
Ghassan Shahzad
The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Took a while to finish this, due to some circumstances, so my memory of it is patchy. It’s a simple and brief history of economic thought. It’s primarily character-based, surveying the major personalities of economic thought in years past, and briefly covers their contributions to economics in the abstract. Not very informative in that regards, but that’s not the purpose of the book.
Still, for ~350 pages, as someone with a grounding in economics, it felt a bit light in content. It also does not go past Keynes, with an aside to his contemporary Schumpeter, which leaves perhaps the most productive past 80 years of economic thought out.
Maybe skip this book if you’re not a beginner. If you want a quick, wikipedia level survey of economic thought and prominent economists pre-WW2, then give it a go.
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